A vital issue in the correct use of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) components is the proper understanding of their functionality, quality attributes and ways of operation. Traditi...
A critical issue for complex component-based systems design is the modeling and analysis of architecture. One of the complicating factors in developing architectural models is acc...
This paper presents an example of how software architectures can encode temporal properties as well as the traditional structural ones. In the context of expressing concurrency con...
Timothy N. Wright, T. C. Nicholas Graham, Tore Urn...
Abstract. Applying refactoring in a model-driven software engineering context raises many new challenges that need to be addressed. In this paper, we consider model-driven software...
We specify a hardware architecture that supports tamper-resistant software by identifying an “idealized” hich gives the abstracted actions available to a single user program. ...
David Lie, John C. Mitchell, Chandramohan A. Thekk...